The Wonderful Christian Experience! Part 27

The Wonderful Christian Experience! Part 27

In following this ministry, you have heard the message of TRUE Christianity probably a thousand times…

So why did we need another series of messages here on our E-truth newsletter on relationship with the Person of God’s Holy Spirit?

For the purpose of TWO REASONS…

GOLD & GLORY FLASHPOINT 1:

Firstly… at any time new people may find this ministry and what we teach from the Lord. That means that in finding GHM it will bring them to hearing the message of TRUE Christianity for the FIRST TIME in their lives, EVER. Every child of God deserves to hear what true Christianity is… since the Church at large does not teach, promote or encourage their people to start living the life of TRUE Christianity.

Secondly… the “Lord often tells me that only a few” of those Christians connected with this ministry, even for many years now, have actually entered into their own relationship with the Person of Holy Spirit.

It is hard to admit that our success rate is really small in having God’s people forsake Antichrist Christianity and to begin experiencing TRUE Christianity with God’s Spirit. THANK GOD FOR frequent and repetitive REVIVALS OF GOD’S SPIRIT in the Church. The Church is ALWAYS in desperate need of new revivals and fresh outpourings of God’s Holy Spirit.

Let’s ask the question and examine closely why the Church is constantly in need of new outpourings and revivals of the Spirit. The Lord has promised us new and fresh outpourings of His Spirit to come to us like the rain (Zechariah 10:1). New seasons of the rain of the Spirit are just as real as the different showers of natural rain. Fresh rain or outpourings of God’s Spirit are to be expected and to be desired by the Church, even reminding the Lord that we are still thirsty for fresh rain from heaven. When we ask the Lord for fresh rain, He will expedite the new outpourings so that we will receive more showers and have them poured out on us quicker and stronger… because we pursued them with the Lord through spiritual thirst.

The Church at large does not pursue the rain of God in this manner. Even the power of spiritual thirst is no longer sought from the Lord. We have suffered long seasons of drought in the Church, many of them caused by the lack of spiritual thirst and the lack of seeking fresh outpourings from the Lord through our spiritual thirst for God.

GOLD & GLORY FLASHPOINT 2:

The second method of receiving the fresh water of the Spirit is to become a drinker of the water of the Spirit. In our book “TRUE CHRISTIAN LIVING” on pages 60-64, we described in detail how to become a drinker of the water of God’s Holy Spirit. In natural life, drinking is a spontaneous response to the natural thirst we experience in our bodies. Nothing motivates us to drink water like a strong thirst.

I recall the days I spent in the military in South Africa as a young man. At times during our tough training exercises, we had to ration our supply of water and had to survive on just a couple of military water bottles for several days in the summer heat. When we finally returned to the military base from the woods, everyone was so thirsty that we went straight for the water and could not stop drinking for a while. We were truly parched!

However, here is what I call the law of drinking. No drinking or sustained effort of drinking is possible without a robust thirst. We have a perfect parallel here between natural and spiritual thirst. As I wrote on page 60 of “True Christian Living,” spiritual appetite, spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst are crucial and indispensable motivations in all the operations and activities of the born-again human spirit. After reading this newsletter, pick up our TRUE Christian Living book and revisit pages 60-64, specifically to refresh your mind on the great value of a strong spiritual appetite.

This is the power of TRUE Christianity… the power of spiritual thirst. Many Christians are always praying for new revivals and new outpourings of God’s Spirit and that is commendable. However, the reason why the Holy Spirit churches today are dry and weary is not because we have not had enough fresh outpourings from the Lord. Oh no, the Church around the world is dry because we have failed to develop the passion of spiritual thirst for the rain and the water of the Spirit of God over the past several years.

If you make a study of drinking throughout the Word of God, you will find that as far back as the book of Deuteronomy, God began to offer fresh water to the people of God. After the initial promise of fresh natural water, the Lord began to promise Israel the spiritual water of God and the experiencing of God’s presence.

The greatest prayer you can pray for any Christian person is for the Lord to impart a new and fresh thirst in their spirit and mind for the fresh waters of God’s Spirit. Here are the simple power and logic of thirst… when you possess a real thirst for either natural or spiritual water, the response and results are always… that at the POINT you become… A DRINKER OF THE WATER… be it spiritual or natural… YOU “DEVELOP” MORE AND MORE OF A THIRST!

Help us, Lord, please… because the greatest need in the Church today is for a new and powerful thirst for God’s Spirit, yes for the water of His Holy Spirit. AMEN

He who has an ear, let him hear what the SPIRIT says to the Church.

Thank you and God bless you!